One amusing side note is that Frank Gehry's popular postmodern buildings have been noted to act as solar collectors, effectively frying people passing by on the sidewalk.
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There was an old compression program called UC2 that could do this -- it would add error correction to its archives, which would take roughly 1k per megabyte. It was good enough such that if you had a couple random bad sectors on a floppy, and the archive had the error correction enabled, you would be able to restore it without any corruption. Worked like a champ.
I know the regular data CD standard includes some built-in error correction (I believe 304 bytes per 2kB), but I am unsure how well it actually works.
As for 5 1/4" floppies, the magnetic density is so extremely low (on DD floppies anyway) that many of them still work perfectly fine today. I still have an Apple//c and it can still boot off those floppies perfectly fine.
You are very lucky. Out of the ten or so hard drives I have had in various computers, three of them fried themselves. I believe heat did in the first one (it was an early model Seagate 7200 RPM drive), manufacturing defects did in the second one (IBM DeathStar 75GXP), and plain old vibration and general abuse did in the third drive, my IBM Travelstar in my laptop. The most reliable drive I've ever owned was a Western Digital 120MB (yes, MB) drive -- the computer it was in got struck by lightning and the hard drive was the only part that survived.
How do they expect to be taken seriously with a name like B612 Foundation? I propose the alternative name "`Shit! Shit! The Meteors are Coming!' Foundation" instead.
The funny thing is that NeXT was about 15 years ahead of its time... NeXT failed then, but OS X is a success story today. I wish the same thing could be said for the Delorean Motor Car...:^)
As another interesting side note, Ken Jennings answered a question (or is that questioned an answer) about Rain Man just a few shows ago... After answering he said "definitely, definitely."
I think the neat part of this video is what looks like an airport in the background... Lots of little dots move toward the ground to one spot, with lots of other little dots moving back up into the sky... It looks pretty neat in time lapse!
For those who want to see some really awesome time lapse, I highly recommend the film Koyaanisqatsi.
It's Windows-only, but still cool enough for this Mac guy to find it intriguing
Apple will be offering a somewhat similar feature called Spotlight in OS X 10.4 next year. The one immediate difference I see between the Google Desktop and Spotlight is that Spotlight will index text contained in PDFs.
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This is a solar furnace, of which there are many in use today. The biggest one in the world is the Odeillo Solar Furnace located in Odeillo, France. The top 3 in use in the United States are at Sandia National Labs, Georgia Tech and the White Sands Missile Test Range. Awesome stuff!
One amusing side note is that Frank Gehry's popular postmodern buildings have been noted to act as solar collectors, effectively frying people passing by on the sidewalk.
There was an old compression program called UC2 that could do this -- it would add error correction to its archives, which would take roughly 1k per megabyte. It was good enough such that if you had a couple random bad sectors on a floppy, and the archive had the error correction enabled, you would be able to restore it without any corruption. Worked like a champ.
//c and it can still boot off those floppies perfectly fine.
I know the regular data CD standard includes some built-in error correction (I believe 304 bytes per 2kB), but I am unsure how well it actually works.
As for 5 1/4" floppies, the magnetic density is so extremely low (on DD floppies anyway) that many of them still work perfectly fine today. I still have an Apple
In other news, the NetBSD team announced that they have successfully ported NetBSD to the abacus...
I wonder if the open code requirement was in the contract -- it sounds like it wasn't...
When I first glanced at the artitle, I thought it said "Microsoft to Acquire Google"... [shudder]
I can rest at night, not thinking about plum-sized cylinders of platinum-iridium alloy.
Very nicely written!
You are very lucky. Out of the ten or so hard drives I have had in various computers, three of them fried themselves. I believe heat did in the first one (it was an early model Seagate 7200 RPM drive), manufacturing defects did in the second one (IBM DeathStar 75GXP), and plain old vibration and general abuse did in the third drive, my IBM Travelstar in my laptop. The most reliable drive I've ever owned was a Western Digital 120MB (yes, MB) drive -- the computer it was in got struck by lightning and the hard drive was the only part that survived.
And here I thought you were Bill Gates in disguise, (due to your username)... My hopes have been dashed.
Did Microsoft consider free software inferior when they released Internet Explorer for free?
Now this is funny -- even us nerds on Slashdot think this guy is off his rocker. Who else is going to sympathize with him now? :^)
How do they expect to be taken seriously with a name like B612 Foundation? I propose the alternative name "`Shit! Shit! The Meteors are Coming!' Foundation" instead.
Hi Reteo -- I've never encountered someone with a User ID as close as ours are. It's good to see other slashdot elders who are still posting... :^)
Three digit /.ers unite! :^)
The funny thing is that NeXT was about 15 years ahead of its time... NeXT failed then, but OS X is a success story today. I wish the same thing could be said for the Delorean Motor Car... :^)
Strange -- they took out the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
As another interesting side note, Ken Jennings answered a question (or is that questioned an answer) about Rain Man just a few shows ago... After answering he said "definitely, definitely."
It is pay day! :^)
I think the neat part of this video is what looks like an airport in the background... Lots of little dots move toward the ground to one spot, with lots of other little dots moving back up into the sky... It looks pretty neat in time lapse!
For those who want to see some really awesome time lapse, I highly recommend the film Koyaanisqatsi.
Perhaps this video might shed some light on the subject?
Simply put, the Internet won't disappear until there is something to replace it. I can't imagine going back to BBSes!
So is that what Virgin Galactic is all about? :^)